Tompkins has always organized her world by food. “It’s how I remember children’s books and world events,” she explains, citing The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, in which Edward is seduced by Turkish delight and the Boston tea party. … In her research, Tompkins combines her interests in cultural history, food and literary studies by examining how food and eating have been used as metaphors for the negotiation of cultural and racial difference in American culture.

Her first book, Racial Indigestion: Eating bodies in the Nineteenth Century, is due out this spring from NYU Press.

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More and more operas are incorporating animation and other multimedia, including Experimental Animation Program faculty member Maureen Selwood's latest work at the Met.
The lauded artist recently … Continue »